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JOHN B. DECK, OF MARTIN SBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent No. 64,751, dated llfay 14, 1867.

IMPROVED METHOD 0F REPAIRING RAILROAD RAILS.

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'TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. DECK, of Martinsburg, in the county ofl Berkeley, and State of West Virginia., have invented a new and useful Anvil for Straightening and Repairing Railroad Iron and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the bottom or under side ofthe anvil.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.

Figure 3 is a plan or top view of the face of the anvil; and

FigureA is an end elevation.

In all the figures like parts are indicated by the same letters ofreference.

In the drawings, A is the anvil, having in its face recesses to receive the dies B B B B. The dies are khinged together at their lower ends, and each pair thus constituted is attached tothe end of alifter, C C.

When two pairs of dies are used on the same anvil, as shown .in the drawing, one pair may be shaped to receive a rail with the top bead uppermost, and the other pair to receive a rail inverted or with the head downwards, in order that repairs on the tops and bottoms of rails may be carried on simultaneously. To each of the litters C C is attached a lever, D D. These have a common fulcrum at a, iirn'lly supported on the arm E, projecting downward from the centre of .the under side of the anvil A, and are jointed tothe ends of the litters -at b b. The ends oi' the .levers project; beyond the ends of the anvil, after passing through the slotted .bars c c far enough to be conveniently seized for workingl The slotted bars have each seats' d d e e, to'jreftain the levers in place when elevated or depressed; the springs `)"serving to keep the levers in their places on the seats until it is desired to move them. The recesses which receive the dies B B are wider at the top than at the bottom, in order that the dies may open and separate from each other when they are elevated so that the rail can be placed properly between them, and in order that they may he forced together after receiving the rail by the action of the sloping sides of theA recesses' as thedies are drawn down into them. A channel or groove, E is made in the face of the anvil on each side of the recesses for the dies to receive that part ofthe rail which projects from each side of the dies. The dies being above the face ot' the anvil, andseparated to a suilicient distance, the rail is introduced between them. By depressing the lever D or D the dies are drawn down into the recesses until the rails are firmly held by them and are ready to receive any repairs that it may be deemed necessary to give them.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The anvil A with its recesses and grooves, combined with the dies B B, lifters C C, and levers D D, arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth, and this I claim whether the anvil be furnished with one or more pairs of dies with lifters and levers as described The above specification signed by me this 7th day of February, 1867.

JOHN B. DECK.

Witnesses ROBERT McIN'rrnn, GEORGE ToUP. 

